Notifications = Distributed Denial of Focus

How it started: "AI vibe coding tools will replace devs!" How it's going: "Do this: - Provide it w a detailed spec - Break down tasks to small ones - Separate dev and prod envs - Do NOT give access to the agent to prod - Never trust the agent; verify every step it takes - ...

Murat Demirbas (Distributolog) and I did a fun exercise and read a HotOS paper ("Real Life Is Uncertain. Consensus Should Be Too!") together. We recorded the entire messy process. It is a long video of us reading, questioning, guessing, and arguing with the paper. youtu.be/4HTc4o-t3Cw

Here's how to become a better programmer in 2025 for $200/month: 1. Find an open source project you like. 2. Clone it locally. 3. Get Claude Code Max ($200/month). 4. Let Opus 4.1 loose on the codebase and have it explain to you how things work. Repeat this process with

HOW do you use AI without becoming stupid? Over the past couple of months, a small group of members on the Commoncog forums (myself included!) have been testing a universal rule for AI use in our businesses and careers. It's out today.

Comically long thread of incredibly random people recommending "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" starting with Yoshua Bengio, the most cited living scientist and one of the inventors of deep learning

How many people can really say they took a distributed database from 0 to 1? @stephwangbuilds did just that with DuckDB, and came to #BugBash to share the experience.

My transit obsessed HS Senior is going to love this game, but I dare not let them have it until college application season is over!

I was just thinking that this is what the coding tool space needs. Well done!

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FYI: I have an open position for a manager to lead our database archiving storage systems team: mongodb.com/careers/jobs/7… DMs are open. Please RT if your network would be interested!

🔥 Today we’re excited to announce new funding for `grep` (at a $1.3B valuation) to continue building the foundation of agent observability and text search infrastructure. grep began as a humble UNIX utility in 1973. Since then, it’s evolved—through recursive innovation and the

I think the craziest experience I had during this interview cycle was a coding challenge where they were like, "You're allowed to use AI tools like Claude Code during the coding interview." I said, "Really? Well, if y'all insist..." For that interview, the approach I took was

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People who don't stay in one place long enough to experience maintenance won't understand. Code quality doesn't matter to people when all their work is effectively throw-away.